DevOps Engineer
Location: NL, NH, Amsterdam
Department: Technology
Salary range: 40000-55000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Layar is a young and ambitious company located in the heart of Amsterdam. As the global leader in mobile augmented reality, the Layar app has over 35 million downloads and 2 million monthly active users. With the Layar Creator and its 80000 content publishers, Layar is pioneering the interactive print movement.Layar was acquired by Blippar in June 2014. Joining Layar means becoming part of a larger team, where technology is developed for both Blippar and Layar brands. You'll work closely with engineers in London, New York and San Francisco, with the ambition to create the world's best and largest Augmented Reality company.

Job description:
We are seeking a skilled DevOps engineer to help deploy, architect, scale and maintain our back-end infrastructure. Your primary role will be to improve our deployment procedures, tune the performance of our critical components and help make architectural decisions. You will also be an active participant in the daily development work of the Server Team. The ideal candidate will be flexible and self-motivated, loves automating tasks and takes pride in getting 100% uptime performance.Key Responsibilities:Deploy and maintain our production infrastructure running on Amazon AWS.Develop and use tooling for efficient and repeatable deployment of back-end components.Figuring out how to make our engineering teams as productive as possible.Setup processes for 24/7 monitoring and failure recovery or our systems.Setup and implement sane security policies that protect us and our customers.

Requirements:
What you have done before:You have been responsible for running operations for a service used by multiple customers, preferably running on AWS infrastructure.You understand the importance and impact that good operations can have on the rest of a product and the positive ripple effects that it can have across an entire engineering organization.You have pulled back the covers and know how this Internet thing works end to end. Networks, servers, protocols, operating systems, services, databases, query optimization, disks: to you nothing can be a 'black box.'You have used at least one configuration management system, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible or cfengine.You have good knowledge of a scripting language (e.x. Ruby, Python, Perl).You believe push button deploys, metrics dashboards, and centralized logging are not just “nice to haves” they are critical pieces of infrastructure that rapidly pay for themselves.You are familiar with the tool-space, and can suggest products in each of these areas.Other skills you should have:Flexibility to deal with a rapidly changing work environmentPassion for qualityGood English language skills, both spoken and writtenGood communication skillsYou should have permanent residence or working permit for the EEA/EU.You should be willing to:Relocate to Amsterdam, Netherlands to work in our office in the city centreParticipate in a 24/7 on-call schedule. And yes, we use PagerDuty to manage this.

Benefits:
LaptopMobile subscription compensation25 vacation days a yearOur common lunches with the whole teamPing pong tableGreat colleagues and atmosphere